Cupcake Wars Judge Settles Trademark Suit Against Rival Store “Pink Sprinkles”

Apple faces increasing legal problems over ownership of the iPad trademark. Apple faces a $1.5 billion fine, pending a final court ruling, and several Chinese retailers have halted sales of the iPad until the issue is resolved.

UK authorities shut down RnBXclusive.com, an R&B and hip-hop music piracy site, with cooperation from the website host.

In‑N‑Out Burger is a privately-owned regional burger restaurant, and sometimes its admirers fan out and open knock-off restaurants. CaliBurger in Shanghai is arguably one such knock-off, but In‑N‑out can’t control this use of its brand under international law if the brand isn’t well known in Shanghai.

Madonna may be facing some legal trouble for her newest album. Joe Francis claims that the Queen of Pop is infringing on his Girls Gone
Wild trademark.

Case precedent shows courts can be reluctant to grant relief from copyright infringement to videogame makers. In the past they have ruled out videogames as mostly unprotected ideas and not copyrightable expressions, but would this change as videogames become more complex and their ideas can be expressed in different ways?

“The purpose of copyright is to create incentives for creative effort.” Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417, 450 (1984). Well, Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution certainly has led to creative litigation. In a recent example, a defendant in a file-sharing and copyright infringement lawsuit has revived the time-tested argument that pornography does not qualify as copyrightable work. File-sharing pornography, therefore, involves no copyright infringement.

In January, the TTAB decided two separate cases concerning an issue of first impression surrounding section 2(b) of the Lanham Act. In both cases, the TTAB rejected the government entity’s attempt to register its own governmental seal.

When Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s daughter Blue Ivy was born on January 7, the Internet exploded with people either expressing their excitement that two famous people had a baby or expressing their annoyance that anyone would …

Artist Anthony Moore is looking to take a bite out of Robert Kirkman, creator of the hit series “The Walking Dead,” for stealing characters Moore helped to create.